Japan Today Political Structure Although Japan is a small country in size‚ one cannot underestimate the power that Japan has in today ’s society. Japan is the world ’s second most powerful economic country in the nation behind the United States. Over the last several decades‚ Japan has emerged from a devastated and defeated country to a political democracy‚ which holds a powerful economic standing in the world. Japans government is mostly composed of one-party dominance. This party is known as
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The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was the correlated decision of the president at the time‚ Harry Truman‚ and his chief advisors. While the pros and cons were weighed heavily‚ it was decided that the least blood shed would be wrought if we shed the most blood on the first strike. On August 6‚ 1945‚ the enola gay‚ a class B-29 heavy bomber‚ departed from Tinian‚ an island to the southeast of Japan‚ carrying a heavy payload which would effectively be the beginning of the end of Japan’s war against the
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ELC – Level 3 20 October 2010 Morally Indefensible and Environmentally Unsustainable Wu 1 When witnessed in reality‚ it goes without saying that the modern killing of animals Neophyte 11/3/11 11:04 AM Comment [1]: Topic sentence tells me exactly and concisely what this essay will be about. for food is
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less than a year after the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ John Hersey wrote a book that tells the stories of six different survivors of the bomb. He tells about what was happing right before the bomb was dropped‚ how they survived and tracked their lives after this tragic event. Reading through this amazing description on Hiroshima has been the only time I am not proud to be an American. Seeing the devastation that was caused by the Country I call home was really hard. Countless lives were
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1. Where is your country located? Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean 2. What ’s its capital city or cities? The capital of Japan is Tokyo 3. Who is its President/Queen/King/Prime Minister? The Prime Minister of Japan is the head of government of Japan. He is Shinzō Abe. 4. What ’s its GDP? The economy of Japan is the third largest in the world by nominal GDP‚ the fourth largest by Purchasing Power Parity and is the world ’s second largest developed
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Impact of Industrialization on Japan from 1750-1914 In the 1750s‚ Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate‚ which had seized control of the country at the beginning of the 17th century. The shogunate centralized Japan and transformed it from a constantly warring collection of disunified states into a single country at peace. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan from the early 17th century until 1868‚ a period when Japan was well behind the industrialization of other nations. During the Meiji period
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R. N. L. Laresma ESSAY Japan‚ a country that shows us even through hard times‚ even a great war‚ could rise up from the ashes and be one of greatest countries in the world. They have shown us their intellectual knowledge about advancement in technology‚ technology that we today‚ use throughout our daily lives. Their culture has shaped the minds of people from all over the world‚ sharing their skills and creativity through means of modern day mediums. This‚ and other unique attributes of
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On the morning of August 6‚ 1945‚ the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. On August 9‚ 1945‚ the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Thousands died instantaneously while many more died from radiation exposure from the bombs. The use of the atomic weapons was unnecessary due to the fact the Japan’s military was greatly weakened and ready to surrender‚ thousands of innocent lives were sacrificed simply for political power‚ and there could have been alternatives
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Postwar period See also: Japanese post-war economic miracle The war wiped out many of the gains Japan had made since 1868. About 40% of the nation’s industrial plants and infrastructure were destroyed‚ and production reverted to levels of about fifteen years earlier. The people were shocked by the devastation and swung into action. New factories were equipped with the best modern machines‚ giving Japan an initial competitive advantage over the victor states‚ who now had older factories. As Japan’s
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Japanese coast amid warnings of a tsunami of between six and 10 metres. Towns and farms around Sendai city in northern Japan have been engulfed by a seven-metre tsunami‚ while a four-metre wave swamped parts of Kamaishi on the Pacific coast.Residents have been ordered to high ground and stay away from the coast as tsunamis can strike in several waves.Seismologists say the quake was 160 times more powerful than the one that devastated Christchurch last month. Japanese television has shown pictures
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